Race for Profit : How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

In honor of Fair Housing Month and in conjunction with the The Fair Housing Project (FHP) of the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO).

“Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s 2019 book, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. Race for Profit uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned. The same racist structures and individuals remained intact after redlining’s end, and close relationships between regulators and the industry created incentives to ignore improprieties……Race for Profit emerges as a necessary addition to the housing canon, expanding existing understandings of discrimination and advocating for a radical re-envisioning of our approach to housing.”

This is part of the Blake Memorial Library's “Systemic: Racism in America” Book Discussion Series sponsored by The Vermont Humanities Council and facilitated by Suzanne Brown.

Email khotellingbml@gmail.com to sign up.

More info at https://blakememorial.org/